Azalin Rex

D&D 2024 monster: Azalin Rex. Source: Ravenloft: The Horrors Within. challenge rating 23, creature type Undead (Wizard), Medium size, speed 30 ft. In Darkon, Azalin was a tyrannical wizard-king obeyed by the living and the dead. When he first appeared before his people, he adopted an illusion of the form he possessed in life: that of a middle-aged human man with dark hair and a superior demeanor. However, his true form was that of a moldering lich, eyes ablaze with blasphemous energy. Since arriving in the Domains of Dread, Azalin has been unable to learn new magic. For a wizard who forsook his mortality to pursue arcane studies, this was the ultimate frustration. Despite the limits on his studies, Azalin numbered among the few Darklords who understood the mysterious nature of the Domains of Dread. For generations, Azalin struggled to escape Darkon. His magical atrocities reshaped Darkon and the Domains of Dread time and again. However, these struggles gave Azalin only a glimpse of freedom, and his metaphysical violations inevitably reverted to the Dark Powers' original designs. Nevertheless, Azalin refused to stay a prisoner. His most recent plot culminated in the Hour of Ascension and the destruction of Castle Avernus. Since then, no one in Darkon has seen the Darklord, and his realm has begun deteriorating. This stat block presents the Darklord as he was prior to his disappearance and how he would be should he return. Azalin's current spirit jar is a golden amulet he carries. If this amulet is destroyed, Azalin's original spirit jar-an immovable dragon skull in the ruins of Castle Avernus-reactivates, and the lich's spirit returns to Darkon if his body is destroyed. Undead (Wizard) Medium 30 ft.